March 30

Feasts

Prophet Joad (10th century BC) (III Kings 13:11), who dwelt in Bethel;
Prophet Joel (c. 800 BC) (see also October 19);
Holy Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Caesar, and Epaphroditus of the Seventy Apostles (1st century);
Saint Eubula, mother of St. Panteleimon (304);
Venerable John the Hermit of Cilicia (4th century);
Saint John II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (5th century);
Venerable John the Silent (John Hesychastes), Bishop of Colonia (Taxara) in Armenia, and later a monk of St. Sabbas Monastery (558) (see also December 3);
Venerable John Climacus of Sinai, author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent (615);
Venerable Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse (662) (see also January 21)
Saint Quirinus, the jailer of Pope Alexander I, martyr (c. 117);
Saint Regulus (Rieul), by tradition a Greek, he is honoured as the first Bishop of Senlis in France (c. 260);
Saint Mamertinus of Auxerre, a monk and then Abbot of Sts Cosmas and Damian in Auxerre in France (c. 462);
Saint Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick in Ireland (6th century);
Saint Pastor, Bishop of Orleans in France (6th century);
Saint Tola of Clonard, Abbot and Bishop of Disert Tola in Meath in Ireland (c. 733);
Saint Patto (Pacificus), Bishop of Werden in Germany (c. 788);
Saint Clinius, a Greek monk of Monte Cassino, he became Abbot of St Peter's near Pontecorvo, where his relics were venerated;
Saint Osburga of Coventry, Abbess of Coventry (c. 1015);
New Hieromartyr Zachariah, Metropolitan of Corinth (1684);
Saint Sophronius of Irkutsk, Bishop of Irkutsk and All Siberia (1771);
Other Commemorations:
The Meeting of the Mother of God and Saint Elizabeth;
Translation of the relics of the Martyr-King Edmund of East Anglia;
Repose of Blessed Matrona (Mylnikova) the Barefoot, of St. Petersburg, Fool for Christ (1911).